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Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy
Published in: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy 10/2019

01-10-2019 | Letter to the Editor

Poland syndrome before Alfred Poland: the oldest medical description (Paris, France, 1803)

Authors: Philippe Charlier, Saudamini Deo, Francesco Maria Galassi, Nadia Benmoussa

Published in: Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy | Issue 10/2019

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Abstract

Here, we present a description of Poland syndrome from the second session of the Anatomical Society (Paris, France) on 11 December 1803 of congenital mammary absence and muscular atrophy on the right side. This case report predates the first official description of the disease published by Alfred Poland in Guy’s Hospital Reports (London, 1841). Consequently, perhaps would it be necessary to do justice to its French discoverer, and to name from now on this nosological entity the “syndrome of Marandel”?
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Metadata
Title
Poland syndrome before Alfred Poland: the oldest medical description (Paris, France, 1803)
Authors
Philippe Charlier
Saudamini Deo
Francesco Maria Galassi
Nadia Benmoussa
Publication date
01-10-2019
Publisher
Springer Paris
Published in
Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy / Issue 10/2019
Print ISSN: 0930-1038
Electronic ISSN: 1279-8517
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00276-019-02232-9

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